Systemic Explorer / Speculative Envisioner / Strategic Planner
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Soft robotics & Inflatables
Exploring posthuman thinking through designing a multisensory VR installation redefining the human body
Designing interactive interventions / Qualitative research / Constructive design research methods
Design Research Project - 2021
Theory-informed UX design / Prototype-driven research / Human-centered interaction systems
Design Project - 2021
Interactive Speculative Design
Designing a speculative product to debate the future of powdered food preparation and consumption
2021
Co-speculation & Futuring
Breaking the cycle of needs through manipulation cards in a participatory futuring study
2022
Philosophy of Technology and Innovation
Developing a critical and ethical design approach through philosophical exploration of technology
2022
Hands-on material experimentation / Sensory design & emotional engagement / User perception analysis
Design Research Project - 2023
"Minor key" & More than Human Design
Exploring the minor key in both the design process and design within a more-than-human context
2023
Immersive Light Design
Shaping narrative through light by concepting and prototyping interactive installations for public events
2023
User Experience & Mātauranga Design
Improving the human-nature relationship in urban areas & including Māori worldviews in design
2023
Socio-ecological Design & Innovation
Exploring the worlds of socio-ecological innovation navigated by design philosophy correspondence
2025
Creating meaningful experiences built on complex theory
/About me
I am a design researcher driven to find new ways of dealing with complex societal issues through a transdisciplinary attitude, bringing together systemic exploration, speculative envisioning, and strategic planning to support the creation of more socially and ecologically sustainable worlds.
My attitude is philosophical, ethical and reflective, grounded in the belief that design can serve collective intelligence. I approach complexity systemically, and use speculation to open possible futures rather than commit to singular visions. I work co-creatively and transdisciplinarily, not as the owner of answers, but as a facilitator who shapes how answers can emerge between diverse experts, perspectives and worldviews.
My knowledge is rooted in qualitative and design-driven research, socio-ecological and strategic design, speculative futures thinking, philosophy, ethics and posthuman theory. This enables me to translate systemic and posthuman frameworks into conceptual design directions, tools and scenarios. I understand complexity at a theoretical level and I know how to operationalise it so that decisions, strategies and organisational conversations can evolve.
I turn theory into experienceable tools and artefacts: interviewing and stakeholder engagement, systems mapping, concept creation, workshop facilitation, and physical / digital prototyping. I communicate through visualisation and conceptual materialisation, making abstract ideas accessible for teams, policymakers and decision-makers. Practically, I shape artefacts and experiences that help people see differently, and therefore act differently in contexts where sociatal transformation is needed.
/ My view on design
Design can act as a facilitator that pollinates multidisciplinary expertise, enabling new situated knowledge(s) to emerge. In this role, design becomes a space for shared thinking, shared sensing and shared decision-making. Supporting designers, users and stakeholders to take meaningful steps toward more just and socio-ecologically sustainable worlds.
Design, in my view, is not a provider of answers, but a medium that opens up alternative ways of seeing. Approaches such as speculative design showed how experiential scenarios and artefacts can question dominant trajectories, and make future possibilities feel thinkable and negotiable in the present. Design becomes valuable when it expands the field of what is imaginable, not when it offers the most efficient solution.
Philosophy and ethics are essential within this. They ground design in responsibility, reflection and accountability. When design is entangled with ecological reasoning, justice theory and systems thinking, it becomes a tool that can interrogate the values, assumptions and power structures entangled in technological, social and cultural developments. Rather than translating the world into a singular narrative, design can hold multiplicity and make it experienceable.
Ecologies, infrastructures, non-human actors and diverse epistemologies must be taken seriously. Decentering of the human and the western truth should be part of the design space. Indigenous and more-than-human perspectives illustrate that worlds are not given, they are continuously enacted in relation. In this view, design becomes an instrument for collective orientation: a way to sense systemic entanglements, open space for alternative futures, and support transitions toward more socio-ecological thriving.